Sentence examples for monumental script from inspiring English sources

Punic was a monumental script and neo-Punic a cursive form.

The language of Palmyra was Aramaic; its two systems of writing a monumental script and a Mesopotamian cursive reflect the city's position between East and West.

The classical style was retained as a monumental script at the same time that more cursive forms grew up for writing on such surfaces as parchment, papyrus, and wax.

Devanāgarī, ( Sanskrit: deva, "god," and nāgarī (lipi), "[script] of the city") also called Nāgarī, script used to write the Sanskrit, Prākrit, Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali languages, developed from the North Indian monumental script known as Gupta and ultimately from the Brāhmī alphabet, from which all modern Indian writing systems are derived.

Between the monumental and the cursive scripts there was a whole series of types that had some of the peculiarities of each group.

Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.

Monumental buildings with red Korean script announcing their function are built across the city, and from some spots the effect is quite an imposing skyline.

Unfortunately, the evidence about myth and ritual at Mycenaean and Minoan sites is entirely monumental, because the Linear B script (an ancient form of Greek found in both Crete and Greece) was mainly used to record inventories.

The Palmyrenes were proud to adorn their buildings with monumental writing in their own Semitic script and language rather than relying exclusively on Greek or Latin (which was the norm elsewhere).

The script occurred in two forms, monumental and cursive, and was written either vertically downward or horizontally from right to left.

Its primary purpose was to serve as a shorthand script for non-royal, non-monumental, and less formal writings such as private letters, legal documents, poems, tax records, medical texts, mathematical treatises, and instructional guides.